Improvement in domino-boxes



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Patented Oct. 13', 1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. CRAIG, OF NEWTOFVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JOSEPH SOUTHWIGK 'AND GEORGE W. PIERCE, OF BOSTON, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOMINO-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,792, dated October 13, 1874; application filed September 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. CRAIG, of Newtonville, Massachusetts, have invented a Domino-Box, of which the following is a specilication:

Figure 1 represents the box in perspective, bottom upward. A, the bottom, is made of slate, or other material suitable to write upon, and set in a short distance, so as not to be flush with the edge B. This edge B forms a rim extending all around the slate A, to keep a pencil from rolling off if left upon the slate when the box is placed bottom upward. The rim B also serves as a guard to save the slate from contact with other objects when the box is accidentally dropped, thus tending to prevent its being broken.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the box-cover, with the under side toward the eye. D and E are holes for two pencils, bored in the thickness of the cover to a suitable depth from the lefthand end.

The pencil, Fig. 3, is shown in position in the hole D, Fig. 2, by dotted lines. Each pencil is headedwith a bit of brass or wire,

- or other, suitable contrivance for the purpose,

to be immediately explained.

K- and L, Fig. 2, are notches in the lid 0, at the mouths of the holes or tubes D and E. G, Fig. 3, is a bit of wire twisted about the head of the pencil F in a groove made for the purpose, and having a projecting point. This point, catching in the notch K, prevents the pencil from slipping too far into the hole D made to receive it, and at the same time facilitates the removal of the pencil by the fingernail when wanted for use.

Fig. 4 is a section of the lid, Fig. 2, through receptacles D E and notches K L, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM J. CRAIG. Witnesses:

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